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.Dd January 10, 2020
.Dt CORETEMP 4D
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm coretemp
.Nd Intel core-family temperature sensor driver
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Pa /dev/sensors/temperature/cpu/*
.Sh DESCRIPTION
The
.Nm
driver provides the system with a means of reading the per-core and,
when available, per-package digital temperature sensors on Intel CPUs.
Currently, the
.Nm
driver supports Intel Core family processors after Penryn
microarchitecture and Intel Atom processors starting with the Silvermont
microarchitecture.
.Pp
Temperature information is available to the system via the fault
management architecture
.Pq FMA .
The file system location and programming interface to the
.Nm
driver are considered
.Sy Volatile ,
subject to change without notice, and should not be used directly.
Raw temperature information can be dumped through the FMA developer
utility fmtopo.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr fmadm 8
.Rs
.%A Intel Corporation
.%B Intel 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual
.%V Volume 3 (3A, 3B, 3C & 3D): System Programming Guide
.Re
